this post<\/a>, it\u2019s never been my intention to proselytize my views to the general membership, but instead to have discussions with those who ARE interested in scholarship.<\/p>\nBut it can be hard to keep those boundaries distinct. I\u2019ve stated I view the Bloggernacle as a place to share ideas, and thus don\u2019t see myself as some contrarian in Sunday School. These blogs are a different kind of space.<\/p>\n
But I DO find the study of history compelling and thus found it noteworthy that biblical scholarship has come up with some curve balls. I\u2019ve observed some different responses to this scholarship: dismiss the scholarship altogether, try to find scholarship that supports previous held views, lose all belief in religion, etc.<\/p>\n
So like I\u2019ve said, I think having conversations about this scholarship is worthwhile even if there\u2019s a chunk of readers who find it uninteresting or offensive. This kind of scholarship is pretty easy to access, and like I said, I\u2019ve heard some people cite it in their descriptions of their faith crises.<\/p>\n
So I had some thoughts to share that I\u2019ve mentioned a few times, but was likely na\u00efve about how foreign a lot of my thinking has been to many readers. Last week I ran a summary of my overarching concept by a friend I was out to lunch with and his response was, \u201cThere is not a single member of the church that will find what you are saying appealing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Me: \u201cOkay, but in 10 to 20 years, a few might!\u201d<\/p>\n
No doubt I\u2019ll have many adjustments to my own thinking in the coming decades, but to repeat, I do think these conversation are important, and it\u2019s okay to suggest some possibilities. Jonathan mentioned red lines, but I even wonder if we can have conversations about those also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No doubt SOME found the posts unwelcome in challenging a historical theology central to belief. That\u2019s totally understandable, and I\u2019m guessing that attitude would fit the vast majority of active members. A similar percentage would likely find debates over controversial topics in Mormon history unwelcome. Lots aren\u2019t interested in delving in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latter-day-saint-thought"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48867,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48866\/revisions\/48867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}